If the majority of the avant-garde writers and artists considered necessary at one moment to put their tools in the service of the proletarian revolution, they followed closely in fact the main theses of Marx and Lenin, in which they strongly believed for a while. The idea of a “proletarian” or “revolutionary” art (i. e., of an art in the service of the proletarian revolution), discussed with a grain of salt by the main theorists of the Marxist doctrine (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, etc.), was also emphasized in many writings of the avant-garde writers; thus, in 1930, the main surrealist publication symbolically changed its title from La révolution surréaliste to Le surréalisme au service de la révolution, as the French surrealists considered themselves in the service of the Comintern. Following their example, the first Romanian surrealists (Geo Bogza, Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, S. Perahim, etc.) sustained in the fourth decade of the twentieth century the idea of an engaged art, and put their entire activity in the service of the proletarian revolution (during that period they also published political pamphlets and critical articles against the Romanian oligarchy, Fascism and the war in the left magazines of the time).
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